But then they want the original, not a copy.
True....... But if you know consumer law it helps you can quote the required legislation. I had that happen to me once or twice still managed to get refunds by sticking to my guns and citing regulations.
Another exfat hardrive failed on me,
fortunately it failed in a way that I couldn't put new data on the hard drive. but I could take take data off the hard drive.
I had to move a lot of shit around to make 3.6 TB of safe harbour for a crapload of awful sitcoms at USB2 speeds.
Changed the bung hard drive to ntfs and it's all brand new again.
I'm emptying another exfat hard drive onto the fresh ntfs drive, and then I'll reformat that bugger too before it bites me in the ass. Why is my ass so tasty?
It took me 4 years to harvest nearly 30 terabytes of data off 6000 dvds.
Giving the dvds away was a pain.
I was a punched gift horse.
Most of the dvd wallets and dvds were dunked in the dust bin.
I hate the world.
I made my collection before Netflix.
Now all these fuckers think they have an endless library of media because they will like junkies pay 10 dollars a week to netflix until the sun goes out.
There's an IP war coming that is going to fuck up netflix.
fortunately it failed in a way that I couldn't put new data on the hard drive. but I could take take data off the hard drive.
I had to move a lot of shit around to make 3.6 TB of safe harbour for a crapload of awful sitcoms at USB2 speeds.
Changed the bung hard drive to ntfs and it's all brand new again.
I'm emptying another exfat hard drive onto the fresh ntfs drive, and then I'll reformat that bugger too before it bites me in the ass. Why is my ass so tasty?
It took me 4 years to harvest nearly 30 terabytes of data off 6000 dvds.
Giving the dvds away was a pain.
I was a punched gift horse.
Most of the dvd wallets and dvds were dunked in the dust bin.
I hate the world.
I made my collection before Netflix.
Now all these fuckers think they have an endless library of media because they will like junkies pay 10 dollars a week to netflix until the sun goes out.
There's an IP war coming that is going to fuck up netflix.
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In the beginning there was only Netflix.
(Mostly)
The other newer streaming sites either own IPs, that they want to reclaim from Netfilx, or they want exclusive content and they will out bid Netflix for the right to broadcast IPs Netflix just lost the right to broadcast.
A bidding war on every front will raise the subscription prices, as the amount of media on Netflix decreases.
Customers will look for cheaper subscriptions.
Netflix has less money to play with, they can't afford to make original content or buy content, of the same quality in the same quantity.
This is how Rome fell.
Invest in a good NAS, stop messing around with external drives, they're only good to transport data NOT as a backup device, a NAS usually comes with RAID abilities and is actually designed to be a (long term) storage device.
That's comparable technology to what I'm using.
Sturdier but far more expensive.
I'd rather wait for the next quantum leap in tech.
More for less.
20 tb thumb drives, or something similar.
oh,
https://www.amazon.com/20tb-external-hard-drive/s?k=20tb+external+hard+drive
I live at the bottom of the world and thought that 6 tb was as big as they came.
Either what I am using is going to radically drop in price, 3 terabyte drives for 20 bucks, or massive 32 tb drives are going to be the same barely comfortable price that I am paying now for diddly.
The problem is that media snobs have 70 inch tvs, so they think they need to watch everything at 4k, but they still want to store as many movies as they ever did, even though Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom is now an 90 gb blu ray rip.
200 tb hard drives smaller than a pack of cigarettes for less than a hundred dollars is inevitable.
Sturdier but far more expensive.
I'd rather wait for the next quantum leap in tech.
More for less.
20 tb thumb drives, or something similar.
oh,
https://www.amazon.com/20tb-external-hard-drive/s?k=20tb+external+hard+drive
I live at the bottom of the world and thought that 6 tb was as big as they came.
Either what I am using is going to radically drop in price, 3 terabyte drives for 20 bucks, or massive 32 tb drives are going to be the same barely comfortable price that I am paying now for diddly.
The problem is that media snobs have 70 inch tvs, so they think they need to watch everything at 4k, but they still want to store as many movies as they ever did, even though Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom is now an 90 gb blu ray rip.
200 tb hard drives smaller than a pack of cigarettes for less than a hundred dollars is inevitable.
That 20TB external hard drive is actually two 10TB hard drives, optionally configurable in a RAID-1 (mirror) configuration for redundancy. The worst thing one could do would be to stripe or concatenate the discs - the failure of one disk would effectively lose access to all one's data - although notionally one might at least recover half of it in the concatenated case. I use RAID-5 NAS storage as I'm a cheapskate and tend to read much more data than I write. When I require portability, I use SSD external drives.
Been there, had that.
A client kept buying Sony Vaio notebooks, which keep using Toshiba drives in a RAID-0 configuration and the drives keep screwing up so the whole lot was lost.
Though people need to remember, contrary to what one of my uni lecturers once said, RAID is not a backup.
Especially when the weekend before I was rebuilding a client's server after the RAID-5 array shit it's sefl.
Ah - the target market for SMR drives while everyone else wishes they'd go somewhere and die
Indeed. RAID-1, RAID-5 etc aren't any help if the array gets destroyed or stolen or the data is accidentally overwritten, corrupted, or deleted. Regular off-site backup is essential for commercial, industrial, or educational non-domestic usage. However, I don't bother as I'd probably have more pressing worries if such damage or theft occurred.
I suspect the drives in my NAS arrays are SMR rather than CMR -- I've never bothered to check as my data storage requirements are write once, read many. They're probably SMR as I'm a cheapskate, as I mentioned.
I suspect the drives in my NAS arrays are SMR rather than CMR -- I've never bothered to check as my data storage requirements are write once, read many. They're probably SMR as I'm a cheapskate, as I mentioned.
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Not sure if they are much cheaper, as other than a 4TB external for backups, I haven't bought spinning rust in years as I'm moving to SSD but from what I read the big issue with SMR was the vendors not clearly identifying them so people ended buying them when they wanted PMR drives.
Fortunately this has now changed.
I have four 10TB Western Digital White WD100EZAZ disks in one array and four 10TB Western Digital Red WD100EFAX disks in the other. Both types are CMR (PMR, He) disks based on the table in What WD and HGST hard drives are SMR? (hddscan.com). I guess I'm lucky as I didn't think to check when I bought them. I just went with getting a really good price for 10TB disks.
the mother-in-law was complaining about the speed on her Asus desktop doing some work yesterday. Reminded her that it still had a HDD compared to the SSDs in her laptops but as she got the desktop for free she wasn't going to complain too much.
Did look at whether an SSD could go in the desktop but it's an All-in-one and that sucker is sealed up so tight it would make Apple jealous.
Usually it should be possible to swap the drive for a SSD, might be needed to tear the machine down though.. some pre-builds are incredibly annoying..
they learn from Apple.
Don't use RAID for long term storage, RAID wasn't designed for that.
RAID is for having your data online and available to access, not as a long term storage solution.
Multiple redundant backups spread across multiple computers or offline and in different physical areas is what you need for redundant backups.
They need to learn to encode in the latest codecs like H.265 or H.266 which brings the file size down to manageable levels.
CODECS have gotten more efficient, so it's time to use them to encode properly and bring Media File sizes down.
I've not tried H.266 but with H.265 I can usually reduce the file size of a video by about 50% over H.264. I hear tell that a similar compression ration is possible with H.266 relative to H.265, which is remarkable. Of course, decompressing the video to view it takes a corresponding increase in processing power.
I was happy with 240 p rips of lost, because I had a 26 inch screen, and the odds of me getting anything bigger at my levels of poverty where minuscule.
1 second hand 42 inch flat screen later, and I had to replace half of my Lost collection.
A show I thought was so important once, that I have not re-watched in a decade, because that final season was a stinker.
